Joseph lauferty



(No Model.)

J. LAUFERTY.

' SUSPENDER END. No. 390,303. Patented Oct. 2, 1888.

. MW MX NllE STATES,

JOSEPH LAUFERTY, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

SUSPENDER END.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,303, dated October 2, 1888.

Serial No. $4.601. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that-I, Josnrn LAUFEhTY, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspender-Ends, of which the following is a full, complete, and exact specification, referenee being had to the annexed drawings.

My invention, as stated, relates to an improvement in suspendenends; and it consists in constructing each of the suspender-ends of leather preferably chamois sk in or kid-made into tubular form, filled with a strengtheningfiller of cord, then flexed upon itself at about its central portion, and the meeting edges sewed together abovethe loop which forms the buftonhole.

Suspender-ends have heretofore been made of strips of leather sewed to strips of cloth, also as shown in the United States Letters Patent granted to Inc dated March 21, 1882, No. 255,175.

The suspender-ends made by me were found objectionable because of their clumsy appearance, especially at the button hole or loop; and also, because of the thickness of the material at the button holefit was inconvenient to pass the loop under the button, especially when it was tightly sewed to the pantaloons. Moreover, by my said former invention, the overlapping pieces had to be stitched down both edges. This added considerably to the expense of the ends, and also they were thick and clumsy at the edges, owing to the four thicknesses of material there present.

I am also aware that suspender-ends have been made by folding a piece of braid upon itself and uniting the, meeting edges, as shown in the Shenfield. patent of November 9, 1875, No. 169,855.

In the drawings, the same reference-lcttcrs indicate the same parts in all the figures.

Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 illustrate various stages in the manufacture of the suspenderends, as will be hereinafter explained; and Fig. 5 illustratesa completed suspender-end.

1 make my improved ends as follows: The leather is first cut into strips of the proper length and width to form a suspender-end from a single piece, as seen in Fig. 1, at A.

It is then folded lengthwise, the wrong side being out, and is stuck or stitched together on the edges, as shown at B, Fig. 2. It is then turned inside out, as seen in Fig. 3. The cord or strengthening filler O is then drawn through it, as seen in Fig. 4. It is then preferably flattened with an iron, or by any suitable pressure, and is then bent flatwise at about its median part, and preferably in such manner that the seams shall meet each other. The two parts thus lying side by side are then firmly stitched to each other, preferably, but not necessarily, by a zigzag stitch,which spans the seam between the sideby-side parts, as seen at D in Fig. 5. The stitches commence somewhatabovethelooped part, as at Fl, thus forming a button-hole at the lower looped part. The upper unfinished extremities are then placed between the folded sides of the ordinary clip or attachingpiece seen at F, and stitched thereto as usual in the construction of suspender-ends. It is obvious that the leather may be made in tubular form, rightside out, which Will obviate the subsequent turning, and then stitched as before.

By my invention it will be seen that I obtain a handsome, durable,economieal, and very desirilblGSllSPOllClCY'Glld, which is made from leather, thus having a surface and appearance specially desired in suspender-ends,.and that loan use a soft,pliable,or,in other words,l1ue quality of leather-such as chamois skin or kid which, being re-enforced by the tiller of cord, will serve the purposes of a suspenderend admirably, and will retain its shape perfectly until worn out; also, that the edges of the end are rounded, thus presenting a fine finished appearance, and that the folded ends are united to each other by a single row of stitches.

I claim- As an improved manufacture, a suspeuden end comprising a leather tube filled with a reenforciug cord and bent upon itself to form a button-loop,the meeting parts of the bent tube being sewed to each other bya zigzag line of stitches which enter each folded part and span the seam between them, substantially as set forth.

JOSEPH LAUFERTY. \Vitnesses:

G. F. W. JOUANNING, J ACOB 0013. MAY. 

